Winterwall

What’s Winterwall About?

Winterwall is a sandbox campaign of old school D&D using the Swords & Wizardry rules set. The emphasis is on blue collar adventure: Wilderness exploration, tomb raiding, descents into forsaken Dwarven holds and plain old dungeoneering are all on the menu. The rules are super light and quick to learn, and we have a lot of fun. Come join us!

Winterwall is also intended to be a massively multiplayer offline campaign. We intend to have multiple groups playing in the same world, contemporaneously. Trash talking and group-jumping is to be encouraged. ALL players share one world map, that they maintain, and that map is the tie that binds. Ultimately, I’d like to have upwards of 20 players participating as they’re able and so inclined.

If you like to read really awesome stuff about how this sort of campaign is supposed to work, you should do yourself a favor and go check out West Marches.

System

Swords & Wizardry is an OSR game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons. I’m talking pre-AD&D Dungeons & Dragons. I’m talking Elf is a race is a class Dungeons & Dragons. It is freely available in PDF form, and there are also print versions to be had. If you still have an old version of Dungeons & Dragons, that will work. So will Labyrinth Lord. If you don’t want to invest in rules, that’s fine too: Swords & Wizardry is extremely easy to learn.

Social Stuff

This campaign is run on a nominally monthly basis at NWARPG Game Days. These take place the third Thursday of every month in Rogers, Arkansas at Gamer Utopia in the Dixieland Mall. Though you’re encouraged to express interest beforehand on the NWARPG forums (or here), walk-ups are quite welcome.

Grognards and Greenhorns are welcome alike. We only ask that you come prepared to have fun and have patience with others.

Oh I see. Thanks, I will certainly check out that blog. By they way, I just emailed my players Matt Finch’s Primer, so we’ll see if they bite. If not, we’ll stick with Pathfinder for now. But one way or the other, I think think the next campaign I run will be S&W or some other variant of OD&D.

Glad to have been of service! This is my first OD&D game, as well. I’ve played AD&D (1st edition) a lot, but I’m really digging the simplicity of Swords & Wizardry.

Take anything you wish from my site. The Paladin and Ranger are actually from the Grognardia blog at grognardia.blogspot.com. You should check that blog out. There’s a great series of AP posts there-search for Dwimmermount.

Hi there Tim. I wanted to thank you for posting that link to Swords & Wizardry. I’ve never played in or had any experience with OD&D campaigns my self but have always been very curious. After checking out S&W (especially Matt Finch’s A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming) I was won over. I’m currently running a couple of campaigns in my own Homebrew Pathfidner setting (in fact one of your players fanned my site and that’s how I found youra), and if my players are open to the idea, we might switch over to the OD&D game style of S&W. At any rate, thanks again for introducing me to OD&D and I wish you and your players the best in your new Winterwall campaign. From what I’ve read so far, it sounds like it is going to be a really fun campaign.

P.S. If we do decide to go with the S&W rules, would you mind if I borrowed your template for the Paladin and the Ranger? I would be sure to credit you for them at my site.